How to stop ResMed's report transmission

[babydinosnoreless]

Lol gotta love getting yelled at by an app now a days, I see you did get the proper amount of sleep..... no gold star for you

That stupid app yells at me all the time. Your mask is leaking to much, blah blah. In October, its my machine then I am deleting my air and going to airplane mode.

To reduce or stop MyAir emails you can goto your MyAir profile, Notifications and then uncheck notifications you don't want to receive.

Ooh thank you. I just turned it all off !

Okay, you got that taken care of, but next you need to watch out for palerider!!! He's frantically studtying for his ham operator's license!!! He'll be zooming in on you with notifications before you know it!!!

Ooh thats a cute pic.

[john5757]

Can the CPAP settings be changed remotely?

[palerider]

He's frantically studtying for his ham operator's license!!! He'll be zooming in on you with notifications before you know it!!!

Now, now, it'd be more accurate to call it casually studying, I can already pass the technician practice tests mostly due to my electronics and tv background.

[palerider]

Palerider, I am going to have to start charging you tuition.

Given that most of what you said after that is all bullshit, your "education" isn't worth a plugged nickel.

I'm on my phone at the moment, and thus it's not worth the trouble to disassemble your error filled post bit by bit at this time, so I'll do it later.

[palerider]

Can the CPAP settings be changed remotely?

Yes, it's a "feature"..
Helpful for people who haven't found this site.

[Dog Slobber]

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[palerider]

Oh this will be good! What time does it start???

Zonker, you bring the popcorn!!!

Sometime this evening.

[babydinosnoreless]

He's frantically studtying for his ham operator's license!!! He'll be zooming in on you with notifications before you know it!!!

Now, now, it'd be more accurate to call it casually studying, I can already pass the technician practice tests mostly due to my electronics and tv background.

Okay, then we're back to this one!!!

Oh no who's been feeding him beans again? Putting mask on....

[john5757]

Can the CPAP settings be changed remotely?

Yes, it's a "feature"..
Helpful for people who haven't found this site.

I am more concerned that some hacker could change the settings while I sleep. Why it has a airplane mode if the connection is safe to begin with? That would be awful and it is on the cellular network.

[metsfan302]

I know my doctor changed my pressure the other night lol, was weird going from an epap of 13 to one of 7 lol, woke up and was like wtf was diff last night lol. Then I saw she made the changes or was it palerider I dunno lol

[palerider]

Can the CPAP settings be changed remotely?

Yes, it's a "feature"..
Helpful for people who haven't found this site.

I am more concerned that some hacker could change the settings while I sleep. Why it has a airport mode if the connection is safe to begin with? That would be awful and it is on the cellular network.

How is a 'hacker' going to get access? Your machine isn't on the internet.

It's not "airport" mode, it's "airplane" mode, for the same reason your cell phone has an "airplane" mode, because you can't have a transmitter on an airplane, not because your cell phone isn't "safe"

[metsfan302]

It’s gotta be on something, my doc changed the pressures from her office.... I dunno

[john5757]

I know for a fact that ResMed can update the machine software from their location using the cellular network because I can see the software versions for each part of the machine does change in time. After all you can use your smartphone to transmit files on it using the cellular network to another phone or to storage in the "cloud"

[metsfan302]

Thanks KnightSleeper - Now I see this popping up on my FB Group Suggestions - Ham Radio Equipment for sale or swap Discussion Group

I have never searched anything of the sort ever

[palerider]

Palerider, I am going to have to start charging you tuition.

Just as soon as you have anything worth learning, I'll be happy to teach you about paragraphs for a modest fee.

Any time any form of cellular modem (CPAP type or let's say even a cellular flood water meter sitting on a sluice gate on a lake far far way) is used the way it was engineered, the computer logs in that signal (a form of serial number software code) and that activity is called by IT guys, as "the hand-off."

We don't call it that, because that's not what it is called. The 'handoff' is when your connection moves to another tower. What the hell is a 'serial number software code'? are you trying to refer to an IMEI number?

That hand-off data is stored and that cell tower unit (could be a repeater on top of a local water tower) is a known landmark with known Lat./Long. coordinates.

Most cell towers don't move around? you don't say... some do though.

Now with time/distance calculations done by the software itself, the location of that cpap signal is easily triangulated (calculated) and is logged and stored.

First, doing a time of flight calculation requires *precise* timekeeping. More than your cell phone does.

Secondly, it is impossible to "triangulate" something with only one distance measurement. The best that can do is locate something within a vague circle. You need *three* fixes (four, if you're dealing with a 3d system) to get a location.

Why?

Apparently so you can babble on.

Because the computer needs to estimate the next hand-off to the next nearest tower/repeater so your calls are not interrupted as you drive around chatting with your friends.

I drive around chatting on my *non voice* cpap all the time! However, you're completely wrong about all of this, Cell phone handoff between towers is based on *signal strength* not *position*, since they don't know where you are, but the handset DOES know the signal strength of the towers it can hear.

Some *actual* information on the subject:
https://www.electronics-notes.com/artic ... andoff.php
You might notice there's not *one word* in there about the tower "triangulating" squat.

Unknown by me

It seems that the entire subject is unknown by you.

location data is stored forever.

Nothing is stored 'forever".

And yes my friend, the location feature on your smart phone works the same way if it is a cellular phone as it is a time/distance calculation done by the timing of RF (radio) signals that emanate from your cell phone (like a walkie talkie) to a tower/repeater and back again that are recognized and logged in--that is how a cell phone works.

No, it doesn't.
The only time/distance location feature in a cell phone is the GPS, which *does* work on time of flight calculations, using the atomic clocks in all the satellite vehicles, and then GPS receivers calculate the distance to each rapidly moving SV and thus *triangulate* (actually, quadangulate, since it takes signal from at least four SVs to locate you in 3d space.

Check your location history of your smart phone on your google account if you have google maps installed and location-on and you can see where your phone has been all over the USA throughout its history provided your phone was on and pinging towers (about every 15 minutes usually) as you moved around.

Location history is based on GPS with a map of wifi hotspots that google and others have collected, not cell signals.

Satellite phones work differently as they commonly only transmit up to geosynchronous satellites (see Iridium) and your location is triangulated that way rather than triangulated by ground repeaters like your smart phone.

Wow, you don't actually know *anything* about this, do you?
Iridium SVs are approximately 483 miles above the surface of the earth, traveling approximately 16,689 mph resulting in a complete orbit of the earth approximately every 100 minutes.

Geostationary satellites orbit over the equator, at approximately 22,236 miles above mean sea level, and complete one orbit per day.

Your common smart phone "GPS" location is not working if your phone is out of cell tower/repeater range.

Again, wrong. the GPS in your phone does not require a cellular signal, it receives it's data from the GPS SVs (which fly at about 12,500 miles altitude, and thus orbit the earth twice a day). Cell service is *NOT REQUIRED* for GPS, just like a standalone GPS doesn't have a cell phone built into it.

The point you are missing about CPAPs is that unlike other devices, these new-fangled CPAPS with cellular modems embedded in them are a fairly new feature and work automatically behind the scenes without user input (the CPAP calls out every day before local noon time in most models).

I'm not missing ANYTHING about new cpaps. You however, are so far out in left field that I'm not even sure you can be reached by long distance.

You do not even know it DID that as a typical user

I knew it the day the machines hit the market. The previous machines had a clip on cell modem, instead of having them built in like the newer Resmeds do, but that's the *ONLY* difference... this tech has been around for 9 years now.

my friend

You're assuming facts not in evidence.

is that few users appreciate that their CPAP (depending on model) has an automatic cell phone feature

These must be the people that didn't read what they signed at the DME, since one has to GIVE PERMISSION for data to be collected remotely.

embedded inside that transmits and receives data without them knowing about it!

See above.

It doesn't stop after T-minus 90 days compliance. Any attorney or police agency can get your CPAP LOCATION

Assuming it even exists, .... given that the only thing that you've said that's actually verifiable was:

Unknown by me

I find this hard to take very seriously.

data by subpoena if it were to become legally relevant (perhaps you are a Silver-Alert elderly person who failed to return home and may need medical attention (you know how adult children can worry); all it takes is for Grandpa to use his CPAP w/ modem the night after a one-armed bandit frolic at the Golden Nugget in Vegas and Grandpa is found the next day! So wake up (after a low or 0.0 AHI evening) and smell the coffee!

I believe, after all this, that I shall revise my original evaluation of your post from

Ridiculous!
to the much more appropriate
Ludicrous!